Translation:When I was a girl, I used to walk by your house.

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Well... Can you switch from the usted-form to the tu-form in the middle of a sentence when addressing the same person? I think "when SHE was a girl I used to walk by your house" should be accepted though, which it wasn't.

wilmie; "I would walk" is one option of translating "caminaba", but Duolingo does not accept it. "Caminaba" is in the imperfect tense.////////One use of the imperfect is to describe things that a person normally would do in the past (note: 'would'). For example, "When I was young, I would play football every Saturday" = "Cuando yo era joven, jugaba el futból todos los sábados"..............or......."When I lived in Florida, I would swim every weekend" = "Cuando yo vivía en la Florida, nadaba todos los fins de semana". I have reported this to Duolingo and hopefully they will change to allow the "would" option for imperfect tense.//////////So, back to the present sentence: a correct translation could be: "When I was a girl, I would walk by your house."